Thread: NOKIA Rejected Android in Favor of M$ - Eric Schmidt
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fireicer is offline fireicer
2013-05-12 , 00:10
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Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
Mhm... I chose Maemo because I wanted freedom. Free software, yes, but also the freedom *not* to give away my personal data.

The more I think of it, the more I believe that the freedom to keep data to myself, not having to sign up to some cloud service or having to use a certain account, is even more important than the fact that some version of the OS on my phone is open source at some stage in development.

Given a choice between Windows Phone and Android, I'd stay away from phones altogether. If I had to use one, I'd use Microsoft. Never trust Google. Never ever.
How about go take a look at the full Android source code and come back and say that. Clearly you have not realised that you can do this!
If Android was untrusted then there would be elements in the source code that would clearly show this.
There is not, in fact its in the apps that 3rd parties make which do this. I am very very concerned at moment regarding these 3rd party apps, M$ Office suit, M$ File Commander to name a couple and i wont even get started on the FailBook app.

Manufacturers are building these apps in rather than leaving them in the App zone, this is not Google doing this, it is HTC, Samsung and so on. One should be more worried about the manufacturer rather than a fully open source Apache licensed software called Android.

I have studied the code, looked through it nearly with a tooth comb direct from google code and nothing of what you speak of exists in that code.

It does exist on the other hand within the 3rd party apps, that is why it concerns me. You cant put the blame on google for that. To build them in so that the user can NOT unisnstall them is a clear problem originating from the OEM's Manufacturer.

Fortunately Sony and HTC (to a degree) have unlocked the bootloader as standard to allow the user to remove everything and install a fresh self compiled version of google Android.

That does mean the user must git the code configure it and compile it then install it.

M$ do not and will never allow you to do this so you say you dont trust google? They clearly open up and have a fully transparent firmware. What kind of trust are you talking about exactly?